Lack of Adobe Flash on iPhone / iPad devices

February 3, 2010

The debate has been raging since the once mythic and fabled iPad was finally announced by Apple. Why has Adobe’s Flash been “banned” from these devices? The posturing over the last few weeks by the Adobe camp has been interesting to watch. We’ve seen Lee Brimelow and his now infamous grid of [...]

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Project Kenai’s Demise and Migrating MysticPaste

February 2, 2010

I’m assuming all folks who were project owners received unfortunate news of the imminent shutdown of Project Kenai. Apparently after Oracle finished acquiring Sun, the Kenai fell under the bus. It’s unfortunate, as it seems like Project Kenai was the only easy way to get access to 3 different repository types, and a [...]

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Calling via Skype using Launchbar with AppleScript

January 4, 2010

Being a small business owner, I do a lot of talking on the phone. It could be on the iPhone, but if I’m at the computer it’s usually via Skype. I like to limit my usage of the mouse to as little as possible, so Launchbar is another absolute must. Enter Skype [...]

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The Mac Pro in 2009 that wasn’t

December 30, 2009

The box came a day early, on the 29th … and even an hour earlier than originally stated, neat. The machine was unpacked, hooked up to the existing equipment and booted. I should have known what the rest of the experience with this machine was going to be like, by that first boot. [...]

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Happy Holidays

December 17, 2009

It certainly has been an extremely fun year here at Mystic! Lots to come in the new year, and we wish all of you a safe and happy rest of the year.
To our success!

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MysticPaste gets Gravatar’s in the comments

November 11, 2009

Since comments were added many months ago, we’ve been meaning to make them a little more … pretty. So last night one of our guys spent a little time creating a custom component to represent a Gravatar. If you have a Gravatar go check out MysticPaste.com and play with the functionality. It’s [...]

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MysticPaste – Integrating Hazelcast as the backend

November 4, 2009

After meeting Talip Ozturk at Java2Days in Sofia back in October, I was inspired to take Hazelcast out for a test drive. What better way to do this, than to throw it head first into our little pet project pastebin! After perusing the well put together documentation on the project’s website, I set [...]

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Java2Days 2009 Conference in Bulgaria

November 2, 2009

Last month in early October, I attended the Java2Days conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. This being the first conference put on in the Balkans and one that reached out to an international set of speakers, I wasn’t expecting it to be any different than the other myriad of conferences. Boy was I wrong. [...]

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Mystic speaking at Java2Days in Sofia

September 21, 2009

Andrew Lombardi, head geek around here will be speaking at Java2Days in Sofia, Bulgaria on October 8th – 9th, 2009! We’ll be talking about delving into Apache Wicket for the first time, and cover an actual application and look at real source code. In addition we’ll be giving a more advanced talk covering [...]

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After the 5 Days of Wicket: Upgrading to Wicket 1.4

July 31, 2009

If you follow anything about Wicket, you know that they just released Wicket 1.4 which offers some very nice improvements and structural changes that make it even more awesome of a framework to work with. Back in March of this year we brought you 5 Days of Wicket, so in today’s post we upgrade [...]

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